The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume 1: The Pox Party
Narrator: Peter Francis James
Imprint: Listening Library
Grades: Grade 9 & Up
Ages: 14 and up
Release Date: January 09, 2007
8 Hours and 19 Minutes
List Price: $46.75
ISBN: 9780739351611
Categories:
Young Adult Fiction - Historical - United States - Colonial & Revolutionary Periods, Young Adult Fiction - Social Themes - Prejudice & Racism, Young Adult Fiction - Lifestyles - City & Town Life
He is a boy dressed in silks and white wigs and given the best of classical educations. Raised by a mysterious group of rational philosophers known only by numbers, the boy and his mother–a princess in exile from a faraway land–are the only people in their household assigned names. As the boy’s regal mother, Cassiopeia, entertains the house scholars with her beauty and wit, young Octavian begins to question the purpose behind his guardians’ fanatical studies. Only after he dares to open a forbidden door does he learn the hideous nature of their experiments–and his own chilling role in them.